Has anybody done or seen a strict costs and benfits analysis from a big miners view with respect to 'buy' SW or 'similar block size increase'?

I would put on this miner hat and write down on my project cost side thinks like

1. Prestudy:

Read and understand. How much lines of code are changed?  -  Time to read: high cost
Complexity: Time to understand also all dependencies - very high cost
Potential benefits compared to simple bs increase - poor
Side effects like loosing fees by easier enable 2nd layer tx solutions - negative
Benefits from other side features like malleability fix - dont care
Schnorr - dont care

2. Prototyping
Adjusting my private miner code. - medium cost
Smoke testing - medium cost

3.UAT candidate creation
High tuning the prototype and optimizing - high cost
UAT testing - high cost

4.signalling for productive go live ?

- Lots of cost there and even some negative benefit!

Stay on 1MB has no cost - inherent stability drives price higher - clear benefit.
Go to 4MB is just benefit, nearly no cost.


What would you do with you big miner hat on?